Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-29
4 Ira d Sermon By Srosk 70 Tab 'nsc -
CIR a Pr acner.
The fwyets Of Inlure LITERATURE thr
Destruction q tie esr' y
Last.
xsmirg Arpurruy lrwcnS nau' a"
Temporal and terral
Woe.
II Gid b. Tssvs a Littls Honty and Lo
/ Mast De-
The Lord .Kuvweth the Way Of the
Righteous, En- the Way Of the
Ungodly Shall Psrsss.'
s!FoRBIDpEN HONEY


BROOKLYN. October l6:--'.Seven
hundred and eighty. n thousand and
three hundred and sixteen dollars
twenty-four cents have been paid cash
down in this church for religious
uses and Christian work during the
nineteen years Of my ministry said
the Rev. 4. Dewitt Talmage. ID. d., in
answer to the misreprr sensations that
have been going through some OF the
religious papers depr' ciating the wo'k
Of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. After
giving out the hymn:
.'oar God, cur help In ayes past,
q ,r hope Tor years T. corae,n
DR.. Taimegc preached % sermon, the
subject Of which was. Forbidden
Honey" the tex. being l Samuel xiv,
v. IS:
al did blu. taste a little honey with the end
OF the rod that was In my hand, aid, 10, |
must die"
DIR. Ttlmage said:
The honey bee is a most ingenious
architect, n Christopher Wren among
insects. a geometer drawing hexagons
and pentagons. n freebooter robbine
the fields of pollen and aroma, 9
wondrous creature of God whose biog.
raphy, written by Huber and Swan
merdam. is an enchantment for any
lover of nature. Virgil celebrated the
bee ia his fable of Aristaeus, and Moses,
and Samuel. and David, and Solomon,
and Jeremiah. and Ezekiel, and St.
iehn used the delicacies Of bee-manu-
..aoture as a Bible symbol. A miracle
"a formation is the bee: fvo eyes, two
tongues, the outer having a sheath OF
protection hairs on all sides OF its tiny
body to brush up the particles of flow.
srs, its flight SO straight that all the
world knows of the bee line. The
honey comb is
A PALACE
such as no one but God codld plan. and
tho honey bee construct; its cells some.
times a dormitory, and sometimes n
storehouse. and sometimes a cemetery.
These winged toilers first make eight
strips OF wax, and by their %antennae,
which are &c them hammer. and chisel,
and square, and plumb-line. fashion
them for use. Two and two. these
workers shape the wall. Ii an acct
dent happen they put up buttresses or
extra beams to remedy the damage.
When about tho year l776 An insect,
before unknown. in the night time at
tackled the bce hives all over Europe,
and the men who owned them ~ere in
VAIN trying to plan something to keep
out the invader that was a terror Of the
Of the continent, it was found
Chat everywhere the bees had arranged
for their WI protection, and built be-
fore their honeycombs an especial wall
of wax with port hole through which
the bees might 60 to and fro, but not
large enough to admit the winged com.
Blatant. called the Sphinx Atropos
DO you know that the swal ming OF
the bees is divinely directed The
mother bee starts for a new home ard
because of this the other bees If the
hive get into an excitement which rais-
es the heat Of the hive some four de-
grees, and they must die unless they
leave their heated apartments. and the
follow tho mother bee and alight on the
branch O.. q tree. and cling to each 9TH
er and hole on until a committee Of two
or three have explored the region and
found the hollow Of a tree or rock not
far off from a stream Of water, and
they here set up a new COLONY. and ply
their aromatic industries. and give
themselves to the manufacture of the
saocharine edible. But who csn tell
the chemistry of thai mixture Of sweet
ness. part of ii the very life of the bee
and part of it tho life Of the drldsP
THE SWEETS OF TEMPTATION.
Plenty of this luscious product was
hanging around the woods of Be,h-aven
during the time of Saul and jena
than. Their army WAS ip pursuit OF
an enemy that by Gods command must
be ext-fnnnated. The soldi.ry were
positively for b,dden to stop TO eat any
thing until the work was done. II
hey disobe,ed they were arcursrd
Coming through the woods they found
a place where the bees had been busy.
a great honey m~anufactory. Honey
in the hollow Of the trc's un-
til I, had overflow Ell npon the ground
in greg. profusion Of sweetness. All